A Special Wartime Law Could be Thorn in Lance Armstrong’s Side

Back in April, we wrote about a quirky statute that was increasingly being used in government fraud cases. It’s generally referred to as the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act.

In a nutshell, it says that there is no statute of limitation for any fraud against the government during wartime.

Courts have found that the definition of “war” is so broad that there are few significant stretches of time in which our nation has not been “at war.” Judges have also loosely defined fraud against the government as anything from tax evasion to the abuse of government guarantees in farm futures.

On Monday night, the wartime suspension law was invoked in yet another scenario: Doping to win the Tour de France.

How does cheating in a French bike race constitute fraud against Uncle Sam?. . . . .